1894 - 1979
Jean Renoir (French: [ʁənwaʁ]; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s. His films La Grande Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939) are often cited by critics as among the greatest films ever made. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Renoir has received more than 1,211,322 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Jean Renoir is the 139th most popular actor (down from 125th in 2019), the 338th most popular biography from France (down from 329th in 2019) and the 11th most popular French Actor.
Jean Renoir is most famous for his films, such as La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game.
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Among actors, Jean Renoir ranks 139 out of 9,996. Before him are Lee Van Cleef, Marcel Marceau, Christoph Waltz, Bruno Ganz, Jim Carrey, and Julie Andrews. After him are Oliver Hardy, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jane Birkin, Laurence Olivier, Christopher Lloyd, and Klaus Kinski.
1925 - 1989
HPI: 70.31
Rank: 133
1923 - 2007
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 134
1956 - Present
HPI: 70.21
Rank: 135
1941 - 2019
HPI: 70.19
Rank: 136
1962 - Present
HPI: 70.14
Rank: 137
1935 - Present
HPI: 70.08
Rank: 138
1894 - 1979
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 139
1892 - 1957
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 140
1972 - Present
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 141
1946 - Present
HPI: 69.99
Rank: 142
1907 - 1989
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 143
1938 - Present
HPI: 69.98
Rank: 144
1926 - 1991
HPI: 69.94
Rank: 145
Among people born in 1894, Jean Renoir ranks 11. Before him are Aldous Huxley, Maximilian Kolbe, Georges Lemaître, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Boris III of Bulgaria, and John Ford. After him are Norbert Wiener, Richard von Coudenhove-Kalergi, Joseph Roth, Harold Macmillan, Fritz Sauckel, and Dietrich von Choltitz. Among people deceased in 1979, Jean Renoir ranks 9. Before him are John Wayne, Giuseppe Meazza, Talcott Parsons, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Nino Rota, and Herbert Marcuse. After him are Hafizullah Amin, Jean Seberg, Sándor Kocsis, Jean Monnet, Dennis Gabor, and Mika Waltari.
1894 - 1963
HPI: 74.39
Rank: 5
1894 - 1941
HPI: 72.02
Rank: 6
1894 - 1966
HPI: 71.80
Rank: 7
1894 - 1961
HPI: 71.51
Rank: 8
1894 - 1943
HPI: 71.03
Rank: 9
1894 - 1973
HPI: 70.46
Rank: 10
1894 - 1979
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 11
1894 - 1964
HPI: 69.52
Rank: 12
1894 - 1972
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 13
1894 - 1939
HPI: 68.52
Rank: 14
1894 - 1986
HPI: 68.34
Rank: 15
1894 - 1946
HPI: 68.20
Rank: 16
1894 - 1966
HPI: 67.13
Rank: 17
1907 - 1979
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 3
1910 - 1979
HPI: 71.84
Rank: 4
1902 - 1979
HPI: 71.74
Rank: 5
1900 - 1979
HPI: 71.43
Rank: 6
1911 - 1979
HPI: 71.12
Rank: 7
1898 - 1979
HPI: 70.50
Rank: 8
1894 - 1979
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 9
1929 - 1979
HPI: 69.93
Rank: 10
1938 - 1979
HPI: 69.14
Rank: 11
1929 - 1979
HPI: 69.06
Rank: 12
1888 - 1979
HPI: 68.56
Rank: 13
1900 - 1979
HPI: 68.39
Rank: 14
1908 - 1979
HPI: 67.35
Rank: 15
Among people born in France, Jean Renoir ranks 338 out of 6,011. Before him are François Couperin (1668), Robert Guiscard (1016), Jean-Baptiste Say (1767), Mireille Mathieu (1946), Philippe II, Duke of Orléans (1674), and Diane de Poitiers (1499). After him are Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis (1792), Elisabeth of France (1602), Raymond Poincaré (1860), Charles, Count of Valois (1270), Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1908), and Jean Arp (1886).
1668 - 1733
HPI: 70.15
Rank: 332
1016 - 1085
HPI: 70.13
Rank: 333
1767 - 1832
HPI: 70.07
Rank: 334
1946 - Present
HPI: 70.06
Rank: 335
1674 - 1723
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 336
1499 - 1566
HPI: 70.05
Rank: 337
1894 - 1979
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 338
1792 - 1843
HPI: 69.92
Rank: 339
1602 - 1644
HPI: 69.91
Rank: 340
1860 - 1934
HPI: 69.90
Rank: 341
1270 - 1325
HPI: 69.88
Rank: 342
1908 - 1961
HPI: 69.85
Rank: 343
1886 - 1966
HPI: 69.83
Rank: 344
Among actors born in France, Jean Renoir ranks 11. Before him are Sarah Bernhardt (1844), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Gérard Depardieu (1948), Jean Marais (1913), Jean Gabin (1904), and Marcel Marceau (1923). After him are Jeanne Moreau (1928), Fernandel (1903), Anouk Aimée (1932), Jean-Louis Trintignant (1930), Philippe Noiret (1930), and Gérard Philipe (1922).
1844 - 1923
HPI: 76.51
Rank: 5
1943 - Present
HPI: 74.77
Rank: 6
1948 - Present
HPI: 74.16
Rank: 7
1913 - 1998
HPI: 72.48
Rank: 8
1904 - 1976
HPI: 71.34
Rank: 9
1923 - 2007
HPI: 70.24
Rank: 10
1894 - 1979
HPI: 70.01
Rank: 11
1928 - 2017
HPI: 69.62
Rank: 12
1903 - 1971
HPI: 68.98
Rank: 13
1932 - Present
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 14
1930 - 2022
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 15
1930 - 2006
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 16
1922 - 1959
HPI: 67.69
Rank: 17